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Originally Posted by Maru

We're the product if the social media platform is free. They take the data and every little interaction, build an algorithm on top of it and then sell off or utilize the data for both business and political purposes... Elon is making money from currying influence and having that much access to our private data and controls over both algorithms and the way things are measured (metrics).. it gives him a lot of clout when making deals outside of the network and that is putting his thumb on the scale...

Edit: All forms of display on a website/computer are manipulated by nature so the data collected is easier to interpret. Sometimes they're manipulated in very subtle ways and that can play a big influence over how we both interpret and internalize what we read/see... it's called "dark patterns" in UI/UX.

I stay off it because of its graphic content. Thats why I use Youtube. I once saw a beheading video, pressed play all by myself. Sat there on my computer, big screen. It effected me for months.

But funny thing is, YouTube is where I saw the whole Iryna Zarutska video. I thought it would have been paused just before the strike. 8 know that's going to effect me for a few weeks. Her tiny frame, her shock, and disbelief and almost acceptance of her fate is something that is going to be hard to shift.



Your post though, very insightful. I regularly delete my viewing and search history just so I can start at tje begining againil if I'm going to far down a rabbit hole.